The condor-on-rock pattern appears on 5, 10, 20, and 40 centavos coins from Chile, as well as the 1 and 2 pesos. Most of these coins carry low value, even though some coins with certain dates are made of silver. The silver purity, however, is not high, ranging from 40 to 50 percent pure. We list the predominant values for each denomination and call out some special cases.

DIEZ (10) CENTAVOSworn: $2 US dollars catalog valueaverage circulated: $4well preserved: $8fully uncirculated: $16coins dated 1900 and 1901 are worth about three times these valuescoins dated after 1919 are worth about one-quarter of these values

Use our Important Terminology page to convert these catalog values to actual values.

Coin: 5569, Genre: Colonizers and ColoniesRequested by: Lynn, Thu, 16-Sep-2010 18:35:20 GMTAnswered by: Paul, Wed, 04-Sep-2013 04:24:35 GMTAppraisal updated by CoinQuest - Appraisal OK, Tue, 09-Sep-2014 13:45:14 GMTRequester description: 1932 Beaded circle on both sides, side one has inside bead trim 'REPUBLICA DE CHILE' arced over a condor with spread wings sitting on a mound, a small ORoty on bottom of mound. Side two has inside beaded circle 2 wheats one facing the other to form a circle not touching, inbetween the tips of the wheat is a tiny 'o' under the o is a tiny 's', at the bottom of the wheat is what looks like an anvil and a sickle, in the middle is the '20' under the 20 is CENTAVOS, under the centavos is 1932. The coin looks to be nickle of silver or mixed maybe.

The coin of 'Un peso' (writed, not in number like '1 peso') from 1932 are made of silver 0.4
- Nicolás

Thanks, Nicolás. Your comment caused us to re-visit this page and we found several shortcomings, which are now fixed. Several of the coins contain silver, but it is low-purity silver and there is not much effect on value. For the few coins that contain more than 0.2 troy ounces, we've added annotation about that.
- CoinQuest (Paul)